Nate Nieto
Nate Nieto

Nathan Christopher Nieto with squirrel

Nate graduated from Humboldt State University with a B.S. in Wildlife and M.A. in Biological Sciences. His Master’s degree focused on the ecology of an emerging pathogen of amphibians, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, in northern red-legged frogs. Nate has worked for private, non-profit, government, and academic institutions as a wildlife biologist and scientist. Nate is interested in all forms of disease ecology and specifically for his dissertation research works on the ecology of tick-borne pathogens, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi, in wildlife, humans, and domestic species. His research incorporates experiments with animal models and field research to better understand host-pathogen relationships and how this affects disease risk. Nate is in the graduate group in Comparative Pathology.

Research Interests:

  1. Ecology of granulocytic anaplasmosis in California (Dissertation research).
  2. Pathogenesis of rickettsial organisms in animal models.
  3. Community structure and the ecological maintenance of disease.
  4. Using phylogeny to explain pathogen evolution.
  5. General parasitology and the biology of disease vectors.
  6. Wildlife and conservation biology.    

Email: ncnieto@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 754-9740

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